A man is in cus­tody af­ter po­lice seized two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis dur­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions in the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­port­ed that of­fi­cers of the St James Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment con­duct­ed a Steady Guard Op­er­a­tion be­tween 11 pm on Sun­day and 3 am to­day.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers went to a house in St James where they car­ried out a search. They found a Glock 19 pis­tol loaded with an ex­tend­ed mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 18 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. Of­fi­cers al­so dis­cov­ered and seized a bag con­tain­ing 277 grammes of cannabis.